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Despite all the warnings from the Bush administration, a bird flu epidemic did not materialize in this country. Is swine flu an empty threat as well?

In 1918, the Spanish flu raced around the globe, ending the lives of an estimated 40 million people in less than a year. Epidemiologists believe one in four Americans became infected during that pandemic with 750,000 dying.

Fears are mounting that the H1N1 flu, which appeared in the spring of this year, will turn as deadly and mimic the course of the Spanish flu that initially struck in mild waves in the spring and summer of 1917 only to turn lethal in the fall and early winter of 1918.
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Instead of cooling down – New research indicates that Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years. In fact, the Arctic would be COOLING right now if it wasn’t for the greenhouse gas emissions that are overpowering natural climate patterns, such as reduction in sunspots.

When scientists used their computers to reconstruct summer temperatures across the Arctic over the last 2,000 years, decade by decade, they found that thousands of years of gradual Arctic cooling, related to natural changes in earth’s orbit, would continue today if not for emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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Americans have always assumed that first open contact will unfold in the United States. In fact, this has never been a very likely scenario, not from the time that the US military began shooting at UFOs back in the forties. Also, the US population is heavily armed and full of people whose ideologies and beliefs make them unpredictable.

The visitors can avoid attack reasonably effectively when they are prepared, but in a situation where they are attempting open face-to-face contact, they are vulnerable. Therefore, the first place that this contact might take place has to be chosen carefully.
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If you live in Vienna, you can chase them away with your radio, but most of us just swat them. Why do we usually miss?

In LiveScience.com, Jason Socrates Bardi explains that mosquitoes are so lightweight that it’s easy to push them away when we’re trying to swat them. It’s much more effective to clap our hands together and trap the mosquito in the middle. The very BEST way (if you can stand it) is to wait until they land on your body, THEN swat them.
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